Comments by "Lynott Parris" (@DenUitvreter) on "Tearing My Hair Out at One Star Reviews of Philosophical Classics" video.

  1. German has the advantage of compound words, they often get more precise and exact with the length, every added part narrowing the meaning down, like smaller circles in a Venn diagram. It allows for putting a lot meaning in one sentence without making it unreadable.
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  2. "The Prince" review reminds me of me at 11 years old picking up Hendrik Conscience's The Lion of Flanders, or the Battle of the Golden Spurs expecting some kind of Ivanhoe adventure.
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  3. And he can write entertainingly.
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  4. @ Yes, and then you have to make a sentence to describe the relevant relation between several of those half sentences and it becomes unreadable and often a grammatical impossibility. So even with extra effort and concessions to readability you might stlll not be able to exactly say what the Germans can say.
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  5.  @TheYoshi463  Just like his categorical imperative is basically an exact version of rather vernacular sayings like don't do to others what you don't want to be done to you.
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  6. German is a language that allows for being exact and readable at the same time.
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